Cloister Garden

My very dear friend, Mary, who I first met almost a decade ago when we were both being formed as religious sisters, has written and...

It has long been my habit to read a passage from the Imitation of Christ each day. The sisters let me bring home the library copy that I...

In a monastery, the nun’s bedroom is called a cell. I still remember when I was an aspirant making my month long visit within the...

I have been home now for six months and two days. A lot has happened since Palm Sunday both in and around me. This includes the...

I thought I would see if I could find a good quote or two in the Catechism to start this post about how my understanding of chastity has...

"Chastity is the determining commitment, the vow in which I set my heart on God." I will allure her into the desert. When I chose...

At the end of the book of Tobit, the archangel Raphael reveals himself to Tobit and Tobiah. He tells them that they must proclaim the...

Early in my monastic life, the novice mistress assigned the novitiate a curfew. Mostly this was to ensure a quiet sleeping environment in...

Have you ever written a poem by just sitting down and writing out whatever flows from the back of your mind to your fingers? I sat down...

Three-and-a-half months have passed since I left the monastic enclosure and began asking what do I do now. It was not a lack of vocation...